[Sfts-students] [Englishfaculty] Fwd: Upcoming Conference - Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler

[Sherryl Vint]

Dear Andrea,

There will be a bus both days. Here is the link to sign up for the bus:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQW8OO-q39Nw1-sW6J7_nGUh5A3VY5sSvcKfGkaU7QnYgsZA/viewform?usp=sf_link

best,
Sherryl

Sherryl Vint (she/her)
Professor and Chair, Department of English

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On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 at 10:14, Andrea Denny-Brown <andreadb at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Hi andré, will there be a bus on both days or just one? I have students
> who will definitely want to go!
> Thanks,
> Andrea
>
> On Apr 8, 2024, at 4:02 PM, Jalondra Davis Brown <
> jalondra.a.davisbrown at ucr.edu> wrote:
>
> 
> Thank you andré for the announcement! This lands on Thursday when my
> Public Humanities course meets so I am planning to bring my students on the
> bus and work the talks into our content.
>
> It might be helpful if English Department faculty could consider excusing
> students for that day so at least those who have other English Department
> classes could attend.
>
> Best,
>
> Jalondra A. Davis
> Assistant Professor
> Department of English
> University of California, Riverside
> www.jalondradavis.com
> Pronouns: She/her/hers
>
> Recent Publications:
>
> "Crossing Merfolk, The Human, and the Anthropocene in Nalo Hopkinson's *The
> New Moon's Arms* and Rivers Solomon's *The Deep*"
> <https://www.fantastic-arts.org/jfa/current-issue/>
>
>
> “Crossing Merfolk Narratives of the Sacred: Nalo Hopkinson’s *The New
> Moon’s Arms* and Gabrielle Tesfaye’s *The Water Will Carry Us Home*,”
> <https://shimajournal.org/anthologies/mercultures.php>
>
>
> “Hidden Stars: A Roundtable with Independent Black SF Writers and
> Publishers,”
> <https://sfrareview.org/2021/10/25/hidden-stars-a-conversation-on-black-indie-speculative-fiction/>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 12:21 PM andré carrington <andre.carrington at ucr.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> See the message below marking the official announcement of the conference
>> on Octavia E. Butler that I've been planning at the Huntington Library, at
>> the end of May. Students can attend for free, and we'll be working in the
>> coming weeks on arranging a bus for students from UCR to Pasadena for the
>> event.
>> Thanks for your support, and please, share the good news.
>>
>> Regards,
>> andré
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Catherine Wehrey-Miller <cwehrey at huntington.org>
>> Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2024, 11:35 AM
>> Subject: Upcoming Conference - Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia
>> E. Butler
>> To: Catherine Wehrey-Miller <cwehrey at huntington.org>
>>
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am pleased to share information regarding the Huntington Research
>> Division’s upcoming conference *“Futurity as Praxis: Learning from
>> Octavia. E. Butler.”*
>>
>>
>>
>> The year 2024 marks the beginning of the critical dystopian future
>> Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) envisioned in her groundbreaking novel, *Parable
>> of the Sower*. Her fiction and the story of her life compel us to reckon
>> with power, leadership, creativity, the Earth, human relationships, and the
>> unknown possibilities that await us in the stars. Now, intellectuals from
>> different communities gather to contemplate her legacy. This conference
>> asks how we have learned from Butler’s writing and what her archive at the
>> Huntington—a short distance from where the author spent her formative years
>> in Pasadena, California—can help future generations discover.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tickets can be obtained at Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E.
>> Butler | The Huntington <https://huntington.org/event/futurity-praxis>
>>
>>
>>
>> Huntington staff, students, and Huntington research fellows can attend
>> for free.
>>
>>
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Catherine
>>
>>
>>
>> *Catherine Wehrey-Miller*
>>
>> *Executive Assistant to the Director of Research*
>>
>> [image: HTG_logo_hz_la]
>>
>> The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
>>
>> 1151 Oxford Road
>>
>> San Marino, CA 91108
>>
>> 626-405-2194
>>
>> She/her/hers
>>
>>
>>
>> *The Huntington exists on the ancestral lands of the Gabrielino-Tongva
>> and Kizh Nation peoples who continue to call this region home. The
>> Huntington respectfully acknowledges these Indigenous peoples as the
>> traditional caretakers of this landscape, as the direct descendants of the
>> first people. The Huntington recognizes their continued presence and is
>> grateful to have the opportunity to work and learn on this land.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
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